the death penalty to be appalling the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families want that's going to give them peace it's going to give them justice and we come in saying. not quite you know we've been through this this isn't the way. to. subscribe to rough people also get the rough he comes in for just twelve euros fifty per month. russia claims ukraine is playing the anti russia card to boost its image that as the kremlin is once again accused of aggression during two emergency sessions of the un security council following sunday's clash at sea. united states will

continue to stand with the people of ukraine against the russian aggression russia wants to consolidate its illegal an exception of crimea and i mix the see. how do you hold on to power the necessary next portion of the anti russian drug sure that people in the country believe that the troubles but you to russia. she is not going to get a majority we have no idea where this is heading that is prime minister treason may faces a hostile parliament brigs it plans as she tries to win over and convince them that the. russian military experts say toxic substances were used in an assault on aleppo in syria on saturday and look why the world's media has largely ignored the chemical attack.

good evening thanks for joining us this is r.t. international. the u.n. security council is held to emergency sessions over the clash between russia and ukraine after russia detained three ukrainian navy ships off the coast of crimea on sunday says the vessels illegally entered its territorial waters on the straight to ignoring orders from the border service. let's go live to new york now of course from kilmore pin joins me kaleb so far the words in the security council sessions take us through what was said. while instead of having one meeting regarding the situation in the current strait instead. we are having to do emergency sessions of the u.n. security council the first meeting was called by russia the second one called on behalf of ukraine now during the first meeting we did hear from the representative of russia he accused the forces in the security council the western partners of

essential acting like overgrown toddlers and focusing on which resolutions to vote for calling a different meeting and not really focusing on resulting the tension and resolving the situation furthermore he argued that essentially the provocative actions from ukraine serve a political purpose for the president of ukraine and and hoping to essentially boost his ratings in the eyes of the west and this is the russian representative at the security council. to put this in persian goes ratings are extremely low due to the elections not so far away so how do you hold on to power who seem really needs a serious exacerbation of the situation in daily a war the necessary next portion of the anti russian drug so that people in the country believe that all the troubles that you tube russia. now at this second session we did hear from the western countries that we did hear kind

of a familiar song from the united states from the u.k. from poland from france all of them accusing russia of being an aggressor and wanting to annex more territory this is their remarks. russia decided to prevent passage of the ukrainian ships rammed them and then open fire on them yes today's action follows months of russian harassment of international shipping in a series of nothing in our opinion justifies this use of force russia must immediately cease its unlawful conduct russia's actions must stop immediately. now prior to the security council meeting the russian foreign ministry was asked what their expectations were they said essentially said that they really had no illusions that they expected that regardless of the facts they present before the case that they would fall on deaf ears and essentially the same script would be

repeated and it seems that the prediction we heard from the russian foreign ministry has turned out to be correct. of course will it kill him or pin new york. well the u.n. session comes just hours after the ukrainian president declared martial law to quote protect the country against russian aggression. as the explain to our kids that the ration could play into the ukrainian president's hands. it's important to understand the stage the circumstances the situation in ukraine now it isn't pretty socially and the critics have said that he is now implementing martial law in order to undermine criticism because martial law will be a huge advantage to the government because they'll be able to outlaw protests furthermore for example newspapers various media outlets new shanel the government has the right to censor them because there is that there is supposed to be new

criticism of the government for the duration of martial law due to a barrel of criticism inside you create perhaps because of that mr parr said that the length of this martial law is being reduced from sixty days to thirty days nevertheless that's still a huge length of time especially if you consider that elections for just four months away so a month of that will have new criticism of mr poroshenko at all if they don't prolong this martial law as they say they won't now but that they you know it's a russian aggression factor won't go away that hasn't gone away for four years in the ukrainian press little go away in a month never lessens the person who has been busy over the last day or so he's been calling on all the support that he can potentially count on for example he's called together the u.n. security council meetings called together the ukraine nato council the as well as

the normandy for that's germany france russia and ukraine the minsk agreement back is to condemn russia's actions so far great britain has condemned russia's actions nato has called on russia to immediately release the seized vessels the three vessels that are here impounded encourage as well as the two dozen sailors that have been. rest that ukrainian sailors as i say it all happened here encourage earlier today we managed to film the vessels themselves impounded after yesterday's desperate chase. contrary to the un convention on russian border ships carried out a frankly aggressive action against the vessels of the navy of the armed forces of ukraine.

like a. criminal proceedings over the illegal state border crossing and been initiated the ukraine is aware of the procedures regulating the navigation of navy ships they have previously followed these procedures for peaceful maneuvering. russia remains adamant that ukraine violated international law specifically the un convention of one thousand nine hundred eighty two one on the law of the sea any third country third party country can freely travel through the territorial waters of any other country unless those territorial waters a temporary lockdown which they were yesterday the ukrainians knew that they filed

no request or notification that they were going to pass through this straight indeed we saw footage of the desperate as i said chase that was happening and it was dangerous the new was carried out by the ukrainian vessels in very close proximity to the tank is the merchantmen that waiting to go through the strait of kutch under the courage bridge which is a very narrow passage eventually of course ended the strait of courage was opened up in marine traffic. commenced but it was a desperate desperate chase and russia said that it had no choice but to employ live weapons live ammunition to watch hold these ukrainian ukrainian vessels ukraine on its part insists that it did file a notification it's previously done so it says that russia acted to were provoked ukraine and that this was an act of war and military aggression against ukraine it also demands the release of its vessels and personnel. author and russian analyst

martin mccauley believes the actions taken by ukraine could help. ratings. on president a situation with ukraine declaring martial law my country member or any other case where they actually did that we must look at this really from really a ryall politic point of view russia is the much stronger state it's in control of these waters which controls the code straight and ukraine really has to abide by russian law even though they may not accept it but the difficulty for ukraine is of course is what you then do president poroshenko has now declared martial law which is quite an extraordinary step to take it will boost his ratings because he will come out as the savior of the nation he will say i'm here and the president i'm here to defend ukraine and support me but of course he will not want war he will not want to conflict the russians would win very easily because of much much stronger and president poroshenko knows that every. so they don't want military

conflict they just want a conflict which will in fact increase the standing of the president and increase the standing of ukraine from the russian polish they're acting they would say according to international maritime law and according to russian law and they were perfectly entitled to do what they did the un security council will debated and probably. probably call on both sides to cool it and to understand that this is a very very dangerous situation and could escalate to situation where there's really no going back because of one side it takes the other then the other side will respond and therefore cool heads are needed here. today after e.u. leaders agreed to endorse briggs that deal to resume is now back in their own parliament where she's trying to win over skeptical but she's going to face

a big challenge in the next two weeks to win around the many doubters ahead of the vote which is set for december eleventh. now to you and see a jerk in our correspondent who is based in london last year so we do have a date for this final vote nonetheless that a lot of work for treason made today. absolutely neal the british prime minister's schedule has been jam packed recently as she tries to save face and see her bracks a deal and as she describes it get on with it despite being met with lots and lots of resistance back home following up being a brussels this weekend for the e.u. summit where she did in fact c.e.u. leaders and doris bracks a deal she's now back home in westminster and facing the house of commons and this is where her mean adversary is out the moment because despite presenting them today with a statement on leaving the view and answering their questions on hours on end it

remains clear that for now m.p.'s are not showing very many signs of being ready to let her off the hook easily when it comes to this deal. to choose a parliament over these coming weeks is to examine this deal in detail to debate it respectfully there could be no joe this deal would leave us with the worst of all worlds how come the prime minister expect the house to vote to put the country in such a weak position. of this area if we have no idea where this is heading why can't people actually have the chance to have their say in the people's vote if you really trust them she would do it the prime minister of the whole house knows the mathematics of. this will never get through she's not going to get a majority in this house for this deal because it would leave the british people worse off that it could not be controlled or not taken back that. well look

time is certainly ticking and the pressure is piling up as we expect a so-called meaningful vote to take place at the house of commons that date has now been set for december eleventh and this vote will. show of the world really if the last endless moms' of torturous negotiations to try to get a deal on the table had been worth it or whether or not it's more chaos is yet to come and i think so of course for that i'm going to see a chicken or with the latest from the. i think steve staying with this stick around because still to come after the break russian chemical experts have confirmed an attack carried out saturday night on the syrian city of aleppo did involve toxic substances that's coming up in a moment. survival

guide look states if you're going to start simply. don't get it. back to. zero zero. repatriations look at the rest to serve in the. military you guys are worth. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you there. on the scene on the line circumstances that allowed for these emergence of this very very lengthy violence i think that we may get the sons and even grandsons of guys at some point in the future it's primarily

a political issue in iraq that has taken on military. armor for cations. russian chemical experts have confirmed untac carried out saturday night on the syrian city of aleppo involved toxic substances dozens of victims remain in hospital some of them in a critical condition. it feels like something is burning inside and my eyes are hurting. the homs it could be in the morning at breakfast i looked at homs and realized that there's something wrong with him he said that he had a stomach ache so i took him back to the hospital but the case has drawn far less attention in the international media than previous chemical attacks did what he's done of takes a look at the reasons why a hospital rush oxygen masks scared and confused children pictures of an aftermath

of an alleged chemical attack in the country who last year instantly became a catalyst for a media big bang these graphic images posted online by activists and people who live in the area killed victims many of them children struggling to breathe and children foaming at the mouth. suffering convulsions being carried in the arms of desperate parents the gag on the gasp and the frantic efforts to save lives these images from it with syria range world leaders on tuesday at the united nations calls for information and accountability in what diplomats said could be a war crime the russian government is denying any involvement in a suspected chemical attack in syria that has a lot of dozens of people dead including many children this comes after witnesses said they saw people collapsing to the ground this time reports of a chlorine attack in aleppo.

so an emergency check ambulance sirens check. and uncertainty in children's eyes check the media reaction was this russia has accused syrian rebel fighters of firing shells filled with chlorine gas into the city of aleppo syria and russia accused opposition fighters of carrying out a toxic gas attack so hold on what. what happened there was outrage words this carousel of condemnation and shaming by the world's most powerful like the united states we believe it is highly likely that attack was carried out by the assad regime. it looks a lot like this attack was done with a side regime that is truly an evil person this is an animal well the difference is aleppo is under the control of the syrian government has been for years now slowly but surely clearing out its streets of rubble trying to piece back together

normality the chances that animal assad gave orders to slaughter the innocent is let's say slim hence it's worth a mention maybe but not much more i want to read to rate here is that france does condemned the use of chemical weapons whatever. the uses are they don't care because the attack is coming from the wrong side as it were if you check the mainstream media coverage globally it's a nonevent in if you also check the so-called opposition media side in syria course they are saying that well that it could be a plot by the regime no surprise there before how easy and convenient in tours to instantly pin the blame on the baddest of the bad guys now when the

alleged hit potentially just potentially could be ordered by your former allies or you had given out millions of dollars worth of aid yeah let's not rush to any conclusions. according to jewish defense ministry dozens of people including children were taken to hospital after the aleppo attack he says the nighttime assaults was carried out from an area controlled by another kind of linked group in neighboring province militant commanders have denied any involvement and insist they don't even have chemical weapons. nevertheless syria's foreign ministry is calling on the u.n. to condemn and punish militants involved in the assault as well as the countries that are and finance them we spoke to pierre lakoff french activist in aleppo he told us about the aftermath of the attack. on our nose where. we thought a lot of people until seeing at people's four games it's really bad people. every day the situation is still really bad. so still receiving rockets still receiving

mortars explosive bullets people getting injured it's not the first time that we can recall with them used during the battle for the project that we just same kind of weapons. it's really hard to imagine that everything is going to start again that everything is going to happen again in the same way with the worst until now and we are ready for whatever is going to the. u.k. government funded organization which influences political and public opinion about alleged malign russian activities has reacted to a recent leak of its documents the trove was posted online by the hacker group anonymous last week from to the integrity initiative to issue a statement only explains. well integrity initiative has finally replied it's taken them a while because artie first spoke about this story last week but originally these documents were leaked at the start of the month and the statement talks about the organization itself that it's an international public program that was set up back

in twenty fifteen in order to count to disinform ation and malign influence and also the fact that it's funded by the u.k. foreign office or at least it has been for the past two years before that its money came from private grants and in relation to the leaked documents specifically the group said that it's a matter of deep regret that they were stolen take a listen to what they had to say in more detail we've not yet had the chance to analyze all of the documents so you cannot say with confidence where the they were genuine who whether they include doctored or false material and then it is clear that much of the material is dated and was never used so you can see the group distancing itself from the leaked documents that they're saying they're not sure if that genuine they haven't had time to verify whether they're all real and they also point out that a lot of the documents contain sensitive contact details some of people that they

were actually considering getting in touch with but hadn't got in touch with the now faced with the headache of contacting these people and explaining about this data breach even though they've had essentially nothing to do with the group so clearly not very happy about this leak and just to refresh your memory in regards to the original story the hack documents have pared through the anonymous hacking website they got their hands on this trove of classified documents that they say proves that the u.k. foreign office is funding this sort of anti russia campaign and as we saw in the statement that the group says that its sole purpose is to counter this information and i. as a result inevitably that means dealing with a lot of stuff to do with russia where they claim a lot of dissent from ation comes from and just to give you an example of the sorts of campaigns that the group. conducts according to these leaked documents

you may have heard allegations that russia has was meddling in the catalonian independence referendum for example well that story may have been helped along by integrity initiative by this group how well a journalist after lated to the group originally posted that story often that other mainstream media organizations started talking about it as well so that for you is how the system appears to be working that's just one example and of course it's all conducted under the banner of. of saving democratic institutions preventing the spread of dissent from nation and fighting the good fight. joining us this evening i'll see international with the latest news headlines and updates and often know.

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a move of all the money that he i don't i'm bored. well welcome to sophie shevardnadze the rivalry between the u.s. and iran an ace threatening to tear iraq apart can the war torn country manage to pressure from both sides to talk about this i'm joined by dr ali allawi iraq's former minister of trade difference and finance. emerging from a life or death struggle against isis iraq is managing to hold itself together while hoping that the new faces in the capital will steer it forward safe and sound

but with iran and the united states using iraq as a competitive arena can baghdad stay out of the turnaround washington cold war forever does the new government risk being torn apart by the foreign players rivalry or is the profit to be made from trying to play both sides. dr allawi iraq's former minister of trade stefansson finance welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us today dr levy a spokesman for the u.s. led coalition in iraq has said that american forces will remain in the country as long as there are native there earlier in the pentagon said that u.s. troops would withdraw when diaster is decide it do you think that will happen. yes i think so i mean there really is no need for them militarily on this resurgence of the isis or diet. activity there seems to be some. incidents taking place along the york city and frontin which seems to indicate that

there is the possibility of dosh regrouping in that area so unless and until that threat is removed i think the united states will find a reason to prolong its presence in iraq and also there are those small pockets of isis and care cocaine on bar province's and given iraqi army considerable success in fighting the ash can they eliminate they remain in jihadist without america's help. i think so yes i mean as you said rightly that is not fragmented they're trying to regroup but i doubt if they will go to the same scale and scope of activities that they had before so they will be pockets of the insurgency activity some perhaps intense and i think all of that is or is within the capabilities of the iraqi security forces the united states really provides primarily air support and sometimes intelligence on the ground but that was in the early years of the of

the war against no i think.